Selenium Webdriver Locating Strategies By Class Name

By class name can be used as a locating strategies in Selenium webdriver. We can identify an element utilizing class attribute with locators like class name, css and xpath. To locate webelement with css, the syntax is tagname[class='value'] and the method to be used is By.cssSelector.

To locate webelement with xpath, the syntax is //tagname[@class='value']. TThen, we have to use the method By.xpath to locate it. To locate an element with a locator class name, we have to use the By.className method.

Let us look at the html code of web element having class attribute −

Syntax

WebElement elm = driver. findElement(By.className("input__input")); WebElement p = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class = ' input__input']")); WebElement t = driver. findElement(By.cssSelector("input[class=' input__input']"));

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class ClsNameStrategy{    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",       "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\geckodriver.exe");       WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();       //implicit wait       driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);       //URL launch       driver.get("https://www.linkedin.com/");       // identify element class name       WebElement elm = driver.findElement(By.className("input__input"));       elm.sendKeys("abc@gmail.com");       //identify with cssSelector       WebElement c= driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[class='input__input']"));       String str = c.getAttribute("value");       System.out.println("Value entered is : " + str);       //identify with xpath       WebElement x = driver.       findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class='input__input']"));       x.clear();       driver.close();    } }

Output